Adult tapeworms can measure up to 50 feet long and can survive as long as 20 years in a host. Some tapeworms attach themselves to the walls of the intestine, where they cause irritation or mild inflammation, while others may pass through to your stool and exit your body.
Human tapeworms can be between 6 and 25 feet long. Some tapeworms that infest other hosts can be 50, even 100 feet long. I'm almost sure that this is correct.
No, stomach acids do not kill tapeworms. Tapeworms are adapted to the environment of the alimentary canal; if they were not, there would be no tapeworms.
Tapeworms are a kind of flatworm. Most flatworms are not tapeworms.
Tapeworms are of the class Cestoda of the phylum Platyhelminthes.
Yes tapeworms are in cookiedough but you have a very small chance of getting tapeworms from eating it...
TAPEWORMS
No. tapeworms are pest to humans.
Tapeworms can live in a host for 5-10 years.
Because of environmental contamination. Tapeworms shed eggs into the environment and those eggs then turn into the next generation of tapeworms. Treatment of tapeworms with medication only kill the adult tapeworms currently residing in that animal, but the environment and other animals remain a source of eggs and adult tapeworms.
NO there are no tapeworms at mt. rainier.
No. Tapeworms are not arthropods. They do not have an exoskeleton. They are flatworms in the phylum platyhelminthes.
YES